Here are some pictures of one of the old school St. Clement's, being demolished. It has now been replaced by a new school Primrose Hill Opened in September this year.
This is a personal account of the thoughts of one resident of Ordsall (JT), regarding the Regeneration taking place in Ordsall.
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The Regeneration
Salford was new and exciting! There was a time when the docks were it! It made Salford so rich, and the area was buzzing.
Now the docks are dead, and Salford is one of the poorest cities in England. It is time to tear down the old, and make it all new.
But areas have spirit, have soul! Ordsall was the pits! It was a bad area. But now the bad ones have been cleared out, and what is left is the social gold! As ‘Secret millionaire’ found, there are people who will give you a free meal, when they are struggling to eat!
New people are outsiders for many years. The Quays have shown the lack of social cohesion you can get. You bring in temporary workers, and they stay for the job, and probably don’t even know what a library is!
I live at the Quays, and it is pretty! I live in the houses, where I am the new one – I have only been there for 6 years! They know each other, and are a community – of workers. And then there is me, who is part of the retired population, I am strange in that I am quite young, and socially active.
Now I have seen St Clement’s school torn down: MY Church’s school consigned to the pages of old building plans in the planning offices history files of Salford.
I know people who say ‘That is where I broke my leg’, ‘That is where I got involved with the Red Cross’, ‘That is where I first kissed a boy!’
People’s memories are being torn down with the building. The new school will be good, when I was thinking of adopting a daughter, it was a very big plus point! Salford was to have it own school academy: Like Eccles already does.
But the new school will only work if there are good people involved with it! If it serves a vibrant new community.
Will Salford get it? I hope so. It will have a new tram system, into the heart of the most exciting cities in England.
Manchester is where the industrial revolution kicked off. No doubt there was as much building work then, though not a lot of demolition.
Will Salford and Manchester be the cities of the 21st century? In the new Internet age. I hope so, as I am involved in digital video on my computer. It has the infrastructure to make a difference.
But rather than being flattened in the Second World War, it is being levelled by the demolition ball.
Will a new, fantastic society take root? That is where you come in!
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